ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 



FEBRUARY 13M, 1902. 



Mr. F. NoAD Clark, President, in the Chair. 



It was announced with much regret that Major Ficklin, 

 one of the oldest members of the Society, and a past 

 President, had died since the last meeting. A resolution of 

 deep sympath}' had been passed by the Council, and several 

 members, including Messrs. Dobson, Lucas, and Step, spoke 

 in support. 



Mr. South exhibited a specimen of Urania {Cydimon) leiliis, 

 Linn., and mentioned that, although a common species in 

 the northern portion of South America, the specimen 

 exhibited was interesting because it had been taken in the 

 island of St. Kitts, one of the Leeward Group of the West 

 Indies. The correspondent from whom the specimen had 

 been received stated that, although he had collected insects 

 in the island for many years, this was the first example of 

 the species that he had seen, and he was under the impression 

 that it might turn out to be new to science. 



The species of this genus are inhabitants of Tropical 

 America. Some of them abound in parts of that region 

 from Mexico to Brazil; others occur in some of the West 

 Indian islands (notably Cuba and Jamaica) ; but he did not 

 know^ of any previous record of a species of Urania from the 

 island of St. Christopher. 



He added that as Urania had been used in botany before 

 Fabricius introduced the name in entomology, some authors, 

 including Guenee and Kirby, refer all the species to Cydimon, 

 Dalman. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited some specimens of Eupcecilia 

 gilviconiana taken some forty years ago by Standish near 

 Brighton. The species had not since been obtained in 

 Britain. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited an exceedingly fine specimen of 

 the orthopteron Sanaa imperialis, from Sylhet, in N. India. 



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